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(No Model.)

W.YR. CURTIS. SEWING MAGHINE STAND.

pt. 18,' 1883.A

Patentedv Se 'UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

WILLIAM CURTIS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR 'IO IHE SIGWALT SEWING MACHINE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SEWING-MACHINE STAND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letterslatent No. 285,019, dated September" 18, 1883.

Application filed October 18, 1882. (No model.) Y

Io all whom t may concern: l The manner in which this device works is Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. CURTIS, a as follows: Spring Gis pressed forward by the citizen of the United States, residing at Ohihand see Fig. 2) through slot i in the rim of cago, in the county of Cook and State of Illiwheel E, and bandli` is placed in clutch or 5 nois, have invented certain new and useful fork g. Said clutch g, being, aswill be seen, a 4o Improvements in Sewing-Machine Stands, of spring-clutch, grasps and `firmly holds said which the following is a specification. band F. The wheel is then turned by the hand, My invention relates to a method o r device carrying with it band F halfway round or-a for putting the belt ou the driving-wheel atlittle more, until clutch g reaches the point at Io tached to and forming a part of the sewingwhich band F (now entirely on wheel E) leaves 45 machine stand. I attain this by the mechansaid Wheel to pass up and around the pulley ism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, on the head of the machine, and as it passes formingapart of this specification, in whichon it is pulled out of clutch g and is freed l Figure 1 isa front view of the stand comtherefrom, spring G then assuming its normal I 5 plete. Figs. 2 and 3 show the device for putcondition and carrying clutch g in toward the 5o ting the belt on the driving-Wheel, with a seccenter of the band-wheel E through slot z', as tion of the driving wheel and belt. Fig. 4 seen in Fig. 3. shows the device for putting the belt on the Having thus described my invention, 4what I driving-Wheel, detached from said drivingclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 2o Wheel. is- 55 Like letters refer to like parts. Spring G, attached to wheel E at point h, My device for putting the belt on the bandwith fork or'clutch g passing through slot or wheel Eis constructed as follows :y Fig. 4 shows hole c' in the rim of said wheel E, said clutch g spring G, (which I prefer to make of twisted grasping band F, carrying it around with and 2 5 Wire, as here showm) with clutch 'or fork g, onto said Wheel E, and then automatically re- 6o for grasping the belt or band F. Fig. 2 shows leasing itself from said band F, all arranged,

the spring G, attached to a section of the bandconstructed, operated, and controlled subwheel E (on the insidethereof) at point h, with stantially as described, and Afor the purpose said spring G pressed forward through slot t' speciied. l. 3o in said band-wheel E, and grasping or clutching band F with clutch or fork g. Fig. 3 shows WILLIAM R. CURTIS. 'a section of the band-wheel E, with spring G attached at point h, vas in Fig. 2, the said spring Witnesses: G being in its normal condition when not in J. W. COREY, 35 use. f W. H. DUN'roN. 

